Chapter 138 - 126: Tiamat

As soon as he stepped foot on the land of the forest, he sensed many creatures that would be considered myths in human civilizations.

*Rustle* *Rustle*

He saw mythical creatures staring at him in confusion, but then they ran away when they noticed the smell of danger in him.

He ignored them, since they were pathetically weak. But he sensed a creature that is stronger than all of the creatures in this area, and even though it has dragonic features, he was sure that this reptilian creature is not a hydra. It might be a dragon.

He wanted to just fly over there really quick and enslav-- tame that creature and just be done with it, but he decided to take his time to appreciate nature for a bit.

He walked through the woods while humming a song called "First Love" by Utada Hikaru. She was his idol back when he was a child in his previous life, and not to mention she was absolutely beautiful, for him at the time at least.

As he strolled through the forest like he was just walking in his own backyard, he noticed a bright shade of red through the corners of his eyes. He saw a crimson haired child, and noticed immediately that she's a devil. There was also a silver haired woman dressed in some kind of maid costume and two other children with her, though he can see the silver haired woman looking at him with cautious eyes while forming a guarding position to protect the three children behind her.

"Who are you?" The silver haired woman asked warily.

"I'm Hikaru, I was just strolling to pass some time until I go meet the giant lizard that lives somewhere around her. So you don't have to mind me." He then turned around.

He was about to walk away, when huge ice spikes sprouted from the ground behind him, attacking him directly towards his head.

He didn't bother looking at him and just let it hit him.

And just as he expected, the ice spikes shattered when it tried to pierce his skin.

The silver haired woman tensed even more and shot hundreds of ice needles towards him, but all of them shattered upon contact with his skin!

He sighed, and turned back to Face the silver haired woman again.

'I guess I will have to show off some of my power.'

Why is everybody attacking him so suddenly nowadays?

"You know, you could've just ignored me and walked away, right? I really don't want to start some kind of fight with you devils, but if you insist," He snapped his fingers, and thousands of black giant rasengans the size of mountains appeared in the sky, and then he finished, "this happens!"

The three devil children behind her shivered in fear, so she teleported them back in their home so that they won't get injured from this battle… at least she's thinking this is a battle.

"Ho, so you sent those kids away? Smart choice, and dumb at the same time." He mocked her, "You could've just surrendered and I would walk away. Is this what they call the sin of pride that you devils have? How utterly stupid!"

The silver haired woman had an evidently annoyed face, "Insult me how many times you want, but it doesn't change the fact that you have trespassed into our territory while the young sister of the current Lucifer and her peerage was here!"

Hikaru just shook his head and just brought his finger down, thus those thousands of balls of energy were brought down towards her one by one!

She coated her fists with enhancing magic and deflected each of those giant balls of energy the moment they came close to her!

*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BOOM!*

10 of the giant rasengans that Hikaru made exploded somewhere far away the moment the silver haired woman, or Grayfia as he saw her name on top of her head using his special eyes, deflected them all!

Thousands of trees were uprooted by the force of her punches and the descending giant balls of energy!

He was quite disappointed when he saw her panting a bit, so he stopped the barrage of giant energy balls towards her.

She had the power level of 8500, so she must be a noble in the underworld, where the devils live. Now that he thinks about it, isn't he in literal hell? He must've done something bad in his past life to be here! (Note: A joke)

"Is that the best you can do? You're weak, and you must have already realized that I could've just killed you on the spot the moment you focused your attention on the balls that I made, right?" Hikaru said without any contempt in his voice, just disappointment.

She wiped some sweat dripping off her face and said, "You're…*pant*… joking right? I'm not even the least tired!" She lied.

She is almost hitting her limit. Those giant energy balls were no joke, just one of those could've obliterated a city in the devil territories! This guy is strong; she can see that now. She should've surrendered the moment she got the cue earlier.

Anyway, she has to buy some time before her master/husband comes here. She hates to admit it, but she hopes that guy ignores his duty as a Maou and comes to rescue her.

Hikaru just sighed, and said in a voice full of boredom, "You're boring." With another snap of his fingers, the giant energy balls in the sky vanished without a trace. He turned his back around, and left with these words:

"Try becoming strong, you might be able to last a few minutes against me. Jeez, I didn't know you were the wife of the current Lucifer! I can certainly enjoy messing with you devils, but before my peerage is full, I won't do it for now. Train yourself, because in the future, this world shall know despair!"

Then he left without even looking back at her. It was insulting, but she knows when to stand aside. Whatever he meant with his words doesn't matter, what does matter is that he's a very dangerous individual! Even her husband would think twice before fighting her, but this guy's magic power seems to know no limit! Even she would find it difficult to create those many energy balls! But now that she thought about it, those weren't just normal energy balls, those things were made of chakra.

She has to tell this to her husband about this!

She teleported away immediately.

(With Hikaru)

She was… pathetically weak. Normally, those with 5000 or more power level will have the strength to at least resist him a bit… well, who is he kidding? Even those who have around 100 Million power levels wouldn't be able to put a scratch on him.

Either way, devils are weak in his eyes. He might have War battle the entire Three Factions later in the future, just for fun. Who will win? Someone who is multitude stronger than the strongest leaders of the world? Or Three Weak Factions?

That does seem fun, so he'll do that.

For now, he is focusing on finding more peerage members. If that dragon doesn't join him, he'll kill it so no one gets it.

He'll take things slow, like a game of Shogi. One by one, they will fall.

And at the end, he'll stand supreme.

(At Tiatmat's Cave)

In one certain part of the familiar forest, there stayed a dragon.

The dragon has a body as dark as night and wings as red as the crimson twilight. Its cold white eyes, commanding, it's every move, dominating.

The great dragon king laid asleep inside its cavern. Every snore it released, the wind would blow. Even when it was asleep, any creature could feel its commanding presence.

This is the strongest creature in the familiar forest, Tiamat, The Chaos Karma Dragon! The only female dragon amongst the five dragon kings!

The cave it stayed in was huge, larger than any castle. Tiamat owned a quarter of the familiar forest due to the deal she striked with Sirzech, and as her side of the deal, she will have to bow to anyone who can conquer her to be in their peerage. But no one could ever make her bow down her head, for there was no one strong enough. She is, after all, as powerful as the Maous and only below to the Two Heavenly Dragons, Ddraig and Albion.

Suddenly, her right eye opened intensely as she sensed an unknown being in front of her.

She lazily stood up and said in a booming voice, "Who dares to intrude to my domain!"

"I do." A calm, unshakable voice said.

She looked down, to see a man. He had black and white hair as dark as her scales and as white as her eyes. He had eyes as crimson as her wings. He wore modern clothing and a few jewelries here and there, which brought her eyes to the rings on his fingers. They excluded very powerful presences, and that means they are incredible treasures.

But the most noticeable thing about him was his power, it definitely exceeded hers. His presence almost made her bow to him, which is a very new thing for the thousand years old dragon king.

"I know I'm an eye candy, but please stop staring at me. It's very uncomfortable." The man said with a bit of playfulness in his voice.

"…Why did you intrude to my domain, unknown god?" She asked.

He chuckled, "Why, because I'm here to make you part of my peerage. You're more magnificent than I thought, now I'm really wanting you more."

The unknown god then snapped his fingers, and the environment suddenly changed into a grass plain, which stretched as far as the eyes could see. There was a lake, but it was no ordinary lake. The lake was as red as blood.

The unknown god clapped his hands, and said, "I've created this dimension, just for you. If you join my peerage, I will give this whole dimension to you, and only I, you, and my peerage can enter it. You can have unlimited food here, look."

With a snap of his fingers, the world was filled with giant steaks, already cooked to perfection. She salivated, her inner carnivore couldn't help but drool at the sight of this amount of food.

She calmed herself down, and said, still doubting him, "Do I really just have to join your peerage and nothing else?"

"Yeah, don't worry. I won't call for you until we have to invade the human world and make myself god of gods." He said with a straight face, which even she was surprised about.

Every time someone wanted to make themselves, quote on quote, "God of Gods", they would usually say it in a grander voice. But this guy just said it like nothing, as if it had no meaning to him.

"Why would you want that? I really don't understand how you gods think, because us dragons don't want to pursue that kind of thing. It takes too much work." She said, quite confused.

He frowned a bit, then chuckled, "Because it's fun. And besides, it's time for humans to rise. Like a benevolent god, I will bless them with powers beyond their imagination and then wage war against the supernatural world, at least that's what I want. It's fun to see weaker beings than myself fight over something stupid, though I could just create a really small planet at the size of a soccer ball and create small humanoid creatures to populate the place. Really isn't that hard, I'm trying that soon."

Tiamat just laughed, "You're mad, but I guess it's time to do crazy things with my long life. Get It over quick, I want to sleep soon."

He held a pawn piece in his hand, which is strangely colored black, and before he flicked it to her head, he said, "By the way, my name is Uzumaki Hikaru. And soon, I will be known as the God of Gods."

Then, he flicked it, and the moment it made contact with the space between her dragonic eyes, it was absorbed dramatically.

And then, she exploded into a dark dust of particles before it slowly gathered in one place.

The dust slowly formed into a shape of a dragon ten times larger than Tiamat.

Tiamat's body became darker than the twilight night, her wings became crimson red with a blue outline, her long majestic tail was then covered by the flames of black and white, and when she opened her eyes, it became dark with an outline of white.

*ROOOOOAR!*

She roared to the sky, and dark flames came out of her mouth.

She turned her eyes on Hikaru, and roared in excitement, "What… is this power!? This incredible power! I can feel myself growing stronger than before! I feel like I can conquer the entire world!"

[Name: Tiamat]

[Power Level: 1,800,000] [Previous Power Level: 18,000]